TACTILE DISPLAY LOCKING AND MARKER SYSTEM

• US 20070257895A1
• Filed: 05/08/2007
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sunrise Telecom Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sunrise Telecom Incorporated
• Inventors: Tolaio, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/746,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20070257895A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A tactile display locking and marker system is provided including enabling a touch screen; contacting a marker lock soft key on the touch screen; and disabling the touch screen including only detecting the marker lock soft key activation on the touch screen

Claims

1. A tactile display locking and marker system comprising:

enabling a touch screen;

contacting a marker lock soft key on the touch screen; and

disabling the touch screen except for enabling the touch screen through the marker lock soft key.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

contacting a marker function tab on the touch screen for displaying the marker lock soft key.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

activating a marker function tab on the touch screen for manipulating a marker icon on the touch screen.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a marker icon on the touch screen; and

switching the marker icon between active, on, and off modes.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

displaying marker soft keys on the touch screen; and

highlighting a marker icon, in a data display window, when contacting the marker soft keys wherein highlighting the marker icon includes;

enhancing the marker icon by adding a shape, a color, an intensity, an identifier character, or a combination thereof; and

displaying user data values on the marker soft keys.

6. A tactile display locking and marker system comprising:

enabling a touch screen having user data, function soft keys or a combination thereof;

contacting a marker lock soft key on the touch screen; and

disabling the touch screen except for enabling the touch screen through the marker lock soft key in which disabling the touch screen includes preventing a change of the user data.

7. The system as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

contacting a marker function tab on the touch screen for displaying the marker lock soft key including displaying marker control function keys.

8. The system as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

activating a marker function tab on the touch screen for manipulating a marker icon on the touch screen including positioning the marker icon on the user data.

9. The system as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

displaying a marker icon on the touch screen; and

switching the marker icon between active, on, and off modes including providing a distinctive shape, color, intensity, or a combination thereof.

10. The system as claimed in claim 6 further comprising:

displaying marker soft keys on the touch screen;

highlighting a marker icon, in a data display window, when contacting the marker soft keys wherein highlighting the marker icon includes;

enhancing the marker icon by adding a shape, a color, an intensity, an identifier character, or a combination thereof; and

displaying the user data values on the marker soft keys including identifying the user data value in the marker soft key by the shape, the color, the intensity, the identifier character, or the combination thereof.

11. A tactile display locking and marker system comprising:

a touch screen;

a circuit for providing a marker lock soft key on the touch screen in which the circuit may disable the touch screen including only detecting the marker lock soft key activation on the touch screen.

12. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising:

a hard key for activating the touch screen.

13. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising:

a circuit to control a marker icon on the touch screen.

14. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising:

a circuit for switching a marker icon, on the touch screen, between active, on, and off modes.

15. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising:

a circuit for highlighting a marker icon in a data display window of the touch screen wherein the marker icon includes;

the marker icon enhanced by a shape, a color, an intensity, an identifier character, or a combination thereof; and

user data values displayed on the marker soft keys.

16. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising:

a chassis having the touch screen mounted therein.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16 further comprising:

a hard key on the chassis for activating the touch screen includes a power hard key, an arrow hard key, a select hard key, or a combination thereof.

18. The system as claimed in claim 16 further comprising:

a circuit to control a marker icon on the touch screen in which the circuit may control more than one of the marker icon.

19. The system as claimed in claim 16 further comprising:

a circuit for switching a marker icon, on the touch screen, between active, on, and off modes includes the marker icon state displayed on the marker soft key.

20. The system as claimed in claim 16 further comprising:

a circuit for highlighting a marker icon in a data display window of the touch screen wherein the marker icon includes;

the marker icon enhanced by a shape, a color, an intensity, an identifier character, or a combination thereof; and

user data values displayed on the marker soft keys; and

the circuit is hardware, software, or a combination thereof.